Vaporizer for gas-engines



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-L. G..W0O,LLEY. VAPORIZER FOR GAS ENGINES.

' Patented Apr. 7, 1891.

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VAPO Rl-Z ER FOR GAS ENGlNES.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 450,091, dated April 7,1891.

Application filed $eptember 26, 1890- Serial No. 366,274. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONIDAS G. \VOOL- LEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inVaporizers for Gas-Engines; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same. I

My invention relates to a vaporizer for gasengines. .The object of myinvention is to provide a simple apparatus for vaporizing gasoline orother volatile liquids for use as an explosive agentin gas-engines;anditconsists in the combination, with a gas-engine, of a va porizer ofnovel construction, substantially as hereinafterfully described and asset forth in the claims, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawii'igs, wherein A represents the cylinder, and B the compressed-airtank, of an ordinary gas-engine. Between the cylinder and the air-tankis arranged the vaporizer D, which is filled with sponge or othersuitable porous absorbent material H, and connected to the cylinder andtank, respectively, by suit-able vertical pipes K K, the latter havingthe throttlevalve G- for admitting air from the tank..

Mounted above the vaporizer D is a full reservoir 0, having a plug Illfor feeding the same and communicating with the vaporizer by a suitablecoupling provided with a needle-valve E and a sight-feed F. At the upperend of the pipe K is a. chamber N, which hasa plug 0, and is also filledwith sponge or other suitable material H, and which chamber has aperforated diaphragm Q over the port B into the valve leading to thecylinder A, which valve has a rod P connected to it and by which it isoperated from the moving parts of the engine, and at the bottom of theport R is a drip-cup 1. An air-pipe L connects the top of rod K andreservoir 0 to equalize the pressure above and below in C.

I is a drip-cup or vessel below K to receive any unvaporized liquid thatmaypass through the vaporizer D.

J and J are glass gages to show the state of the contents of the vessels0 and J,

Compressed air from the chamber 13 being admitted to the vaporizer Dthrough the valve G, takes up the vapor from the liquid in the sponge,forming an explosive compound which passes through the vertical pipe Kand cylinder A, and is then fired, any excess of liquid overflowing intothe drip vessels I and I. The vaporizer is arranged below the comnectedthereto by a vertical pipe, whereby danger of a flow ofthe liquid intothe chamber by gravity is obviated.

\Vhat I claim isl. The combination, with a gas or vapor engine, of avaporizer consisting of an insuitable porous material and connected,respectively, with the compressed-air chamber and the cylinder of theengine, a drip-cup between the vaporiZing-chamber and the cylinder ofthe engine, and a fuel-reservoir mounted above,supported on, andconnected with the vaporizing-chamber, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a vapor or gas chamber filled with sponge orother suitable porous material and connected, respectively, with theair-chamber and the cylinder of the engine, a drip-cup between thevaporizingchamber and the cylinder of the engine, a

chamber, and an air-pipe L, connecting the pipe K with thefuel-reservoir, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination, with a gas or vapor engine, of a vaporizerconsisting of an inclosed chamberD, filled with sponge or other suitablematerial and connected, respectively, with the compressed-air chamberand the cylinder of the engine, a second chamber N, filled with spongeor other suitable material between said chamber D and the cylinderconnections between chambers N and D and said cylinder, a dripecupbetween said cham bers N and D, and a fuel-reservoir connected to thechamber D, substantially as set forth.

4. A vaporizer for vaporizing volatile liquids, composed of avaporizing-chamber D,

filled with sponge or other suitable material,

bustion-chamber of the cylinder and conclosed chamber filled with spongeor other.

engine, of a vaporizer consisting of an inclosed fuel-reservoirconnected with the vaporizing its connections into the upper'end of the2t fuel-reservoir '1, mounted on the chamber D and communicatingtherewith, a supplementary vaporizing-chamber N, also filled with spongeorother suitable material, a dripcup connected to the chamber N, and adripcup I between chambers D and N, connections between said chambersand the airchamber and the cylinder of the engine, a fuel-reservoir O,mounted on the vaporizing- 1o chamber D, connected thereto, and anairpipe L, connecting the pipe K with said fuelreservoir for equalizingthe pressure in said reservoir, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in x 5 presence of twowitnesses.

LEONIDAS G. WOOLLEY. Witnesses:

DENNIS L. ROGERS, LUTHER V. MOULTON.

